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I have a 2nd HDD in a ThinkPad Ultrabay 2000 hard disk drive adapter (see 08K6067). I've been using it for months and I really like it (I can remove it and keep my data isolated from other users of the laptop )

Yesterday a friend of mine gave me an external hdd enclosure that will allow me to connect the 2nd hdd to my desktop. This will save me alot of data movemevt thru my memory stick.

Last night, when I got home I tried to connect the 2nd laptop hdd to my new USB thingy and I cannot figure out how to remove the laptop hdd from the Ultrabay adapter. I figured I was tired so I waited until this morning. Now, even after my morning coffee, I'm still stumped

I went thru ibm.com and I cannot find a "how-to" pdf. I found how-to on newer hdd adapters, but not this one.

I know I'm missing something very simple, but can someone please help?

Sorry for the silly question, but it's bugging me that I cannot figure it out.

The hdd is only held in place by the ide connector. No screws, no latch, no anything. I usually flip the hdd adapter around so that the hdd points down. Be careful that it does not fall right out of there. The lower end of the hdd comes out of the adapter tray, take the sides between thumb and index finger and pull it gently out of the ide plug.

Never touch top or bottom of the harddisk, only handle the sides.

Hello,

I have the same adapter for my R40 and if you hold the adapter with the drive in it the same way you'd insert it into the machine (IE, "right side up") there is a strip of plastic behind the drive (width of the adapter drive opening) that is part of the frame of the ultrabay 2000 adapter. This piece of plastic flips up so that you can easily slide the drive backwards and lift it out of the adapter.

Hopefully that description tells you what you need - I'm not aware of a video or anything that will show exactly what you need to do unfortunately.

wolfman wrote:I have the same adapter for my R40 and if you hold the adapter with the drive in it the same way you'd insert it into the machine (IE, "right side up") there is a strip of plastic behind the drive (width of the adapter drive opening) that is part of the frame of the ultrabay 2000 adapter. This piece of plastic flips up so that you can easily slide the drive backwards and lift it out of the adapter.

PERFECT!
Thank you!!!
I was tempted to try to flip that piece, but was afraid to snap it off.

Just for the record, my "Ultraslimbay" for my 600X works exactly the same.

This is, in my opinion, one of the single handiest accessories you can add to a Thinkpad

440roadrunner wrote:This is, in my opinion, one of the single handiest accessories you can add to a Thinkpad

I am starting to think seriously about getting one of these with a laptop hard drive. I could put the factory install on the second hard drive, then use it for my backups from the primary hard drive. If my primary hard drive fails, I just put in the secondary hard drive, boot up, and restore my backup. One of the main reasons this is especially attractive is that I work on a coastwise tugboat, and would have some difficulty getting to a store for a replacement hard drive, should my one hard drive fail. Maybe next time I go home.....

I haven't tried this yet- but i was toying with the idea:


You could software mirror the drives if you have two drives. if one fails you could use the other drive with an exact duplicate - if you have two hard drives or more.

Off the shelf - a laptop with windows XP software detects a mobile system and disables the ability to mirror the drive. However, you can manually set the bit in the registry to enable drive mirroring.

Apparently, Microsoft disabled this feature for mobile computers because they thought users would yank out the hard drive when it was trying to rebuild the mirror and cause corruption.

I use these adapters to clone the laptop drives to drives in them for both my son's 600E and my T30. It is a great way to back up data as well as having a fully bootable drive in case of a crash...works very well. I use Ghost 7 on a bootable USB key to boot with when I do this on the T30. Unfortunately the 600E can't boot a usb key so I use a floppy adapter for it with Ghost 7 loaded on a bootable floppy.

MadeInJapan wrote:I use these adapters to clone the laptop drives to drives in them for both my son's 600E and my T30. It is a great way to back up data as well as having a fully bootable drive in case of a crash...works very well. I use Ghost 7 on a bootable USB key to boot with when I do this on the T30. Unfortunately the 600E can't boot a usb key so I use a floppy adapter for it with Ghost 7 loaded on a bootable floppy.

Not to change the subject too much, but how do I setup a bootable USB key and where can I find out which machines support that?

I haven't played with USB boot, but can't you get into bios to tell if it's supported?